3.2.1 Integration with Core Courses
The Innovation Project begins during the students’ application process, in which they are tasked with identifying a witnessed or hypothesized problem within professional practice. The application essay will serve as an initial outline for collaboration during the students’ first on-campus visit during orientation before the PP-OTD program begins. Upon matriculation, the students will be assigned a faculty mentor to further support development of the knowledge and skills defining the problem at hand.
There are four sequential Innovation Project courses encompassing the Innovation Project (5 credits), each targeting a theme of the Innovation Project process: Discover, Build, Improve and Inform. An additional fifth semester theme, Impact, is infused throughout the Innovation Project process, but does not include an Innovation Project course. Although the sequence of Innovation Project courses is sequential, the timing of each course depends on when the student has matriculated. See Appendix A for Innovation Project course offerings for each of the three points of entry into the PP-OTD program.